7:30pm Sunday 26 March 2023 St Oswald’s Church, Bollington Bollington Road SK10 5EG With guests Kerry Firth soprano, John Bush trumpet, strings led by Nicola Bright, soloists from the Choir and Rosalind Hall continuo. Donald Judge’s setting of G K Chesterton’s Palm Sunday poem The Donkey. Felix Mendelssohn’s Cantata O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden (O Sacred head, sore wounded) based […]
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Singing Day: Gounod St Cecilia Mass
Saturday 11 March 2023 9.30am – 4.00pm Bollington Arts Centre Singers of all ages 17+ are invited to join us for an informal and purposeful day’s singing. For many years, with 2021 being an exception, Bollington Festival Choir has hosted a Singing Day open to the public. In recent years, the work studied has been […]
Nine Lessons and Carols: St Oswald’s
3:00pm Sunday 11 December 2022 St Oswald’s Church, Bollington Bollington Road SK10 5EG Why wait for Christmas Eve and King’s College Cambridge? Enjoy carols from your local Choir and join in some of the traditional favourites. Free with a retiring collection.
The Promise of Advent
7:30pm Sunday 27 November 2022 St Oswald’s Church, Bollington Bollington Road SK10 5EG Mary’s reply to Angel Gabriel at the Annunciation is celebrated by the Motet and Mass Dixit Maria by Hans Leo Hassler, a respected and influential contemporary of William Byrd. Martin Luther’s Advent hymn Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland (Come Saviour of the […]
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Dvořák Mass in D
7:30pm Sunday 12 June 2022 St Oswald’s Church The main work in the Festival Choir’s final concert of the 2021-2022 Season is the sunny and tuneful Mass in D that Dvořák wrote in 1887 for a friend who had built a new chapel at his chateau in Lužany. The original was for a small choir […]